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SilverwingKenneth Oppel

The first book in Kenneth Oppel’s astonishing trilogy – withover a million copies sold!

Shade is a young Silverwing bat, the runt of his colony, determined to prove himself on the long and dangerous winter migration, flying millions of wingbeats to the south.

But disaster strikes! A storm sweeps Shade out over the ocean - away from his family, his friends, and the only life he has ever known. Alone and frightened as temperatures plunge, Shade sets out on a remarkable journey - to find his family again...

I was born in Port Alberni, a mill town on Vancouver Island in western Canada but spent the bulk of my childhood in Victoria, B.C. and on the opposite coast, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At around twelve I decided I wanted to be a writer (this came after deciding I wanted to be a scientist, and then an architect).